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Where to practice wheelies?

^ best idea. Bikes are designed to fall over and the ground is a little squishier to protect you too.

It's very hard to find a place where you can legally practice on a street bike. If you have a private parking lot, separated from roads with a gate or chain and have the owners permission, you could, but where does that happen? Stunters have worked hard to find spots to practice, but they don't want randoms there for fear of pissing off the kind souls that give them a place to improve. As for the track, it's not my scene so I'm not sure, but I suspect most would not be happy with you wobbling around slightly out of control.
 
What you are trying to learn is front to back balance of a motorcycle, and that is a very good thing to learn, I applaud you for that.
A Wheelie or even more cool a cat walk, requires a whole bunch of that plus throttle control, brake control and clutch control.
How solid are you on those things first, then what bike do plan to wheelie and how do you plan to do it? ie. are you going to just rev it up and drop the clutch, because it ain't that simple.
 
I know how to wheelie, but can’t hold balance point. I want to like to pick up maybe a drz400 next summer to perfect it. Currently ride an s1000R, and don’t want to take things to the limit on that bike for obvious reasons.
 
Get yourself a little 50cc dirt bike to learn on and you'll be holding balance point in just a few sessions. It's all about getting comfortable with feathering your rear brake and being smooth with your throttle hand. I have a chinese crf50 clone that I practice on constantly, I can hold a wheelie in second or third gear for a few hundred meters easily. Custom widened/long seat, custom handbrake, oversize sprocket, welded rear pegs, repacked muffler, street tires, heavy duty shock, and a few other goodies. Just the basics really. Oil change every 4 hours, there's gotta be 50+ hours on it and still runs great. No clue how old it is but I paid $50 and it came with a 4-speed and a front disc conversion
 
Get an electric trials bike & you can practice indoors all winter.
 
GreyGhost said:
Hmm, that is a cool idea. I was also contemplating ebike gymkhana as a recreational activity.
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electric trials bike would rule on a gymkhana course.
 
Off topic, this Trials guy is always bringing Trials bikes into every post. Insurance problem, get a Trials. Wheelie, Get a Trials. Had an accident, Get a Trials, getting old, Get a Trials, Keep burning your toast, get a Trials. Not everyone wants, is interested in, or likes Trials bikes. Might as well tell the OP to use a bicycle to learn how to keep a wheelie on. I Like a lot of your advise and thoughts, thought it starts to feel like a YouTube video where at the end there's a sponsor shout out, just instead with a Trials bike mention.
 
ScorpionT16 said:
Off topic, this Trials guy is always bringing Trials bikes into every post. Insurance problem, get a Trials. Wheelie, Get a Trials. Had an accident, Get a Trials, getting old, Get a Trials, Keep burning your toast, get a Trials. Not everyone wants, is interested in, or likes Trials bikes. Might as well tell the OP to use a bicycle to learn how to keep a wheelie on. I Like a lot of your advise and thoughts, thought it starts to feel like a YouTube video where at the end there's a sponsor shout out, just instead with a Trials bike mention.
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I Finally understand the Lemur avatar.
 
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